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Short post to give you something cool I tried out today. I think about 1 year ago Microsoft dropped the Network Analyzer tool and replaced it with the Microsoft Message Analyzer tool.

With this tool you can now trace not only network traffic, like you only could do with the network analyzer tool, but also many other trace datasources. One of them is also OMS. Yes you hear it right. You can now analyse your OMS query’s using the Message Analyzer tool !

In OMS when you are making search query’s you can use the BY command to group. When you specify multiply group columns and use the INTERVAL to generate a graph you will also get a nice feature exposed.

In the legend you can now select the lines you want to see by grouping. This could be very handy.

See picture below:

Drawback

One drawback when using multiply groups. If you use this query also in a custom view you will lose the legend. But this legend is useless anyway since the view space is too little to make it readable.